An editorial in the Pyongyang Times on Monday claims that the U.S. may have developed the Ebola virus and intentionally allowed it to spread throughout West Africa and the rest of the world.

The article, “Ebola virus much feared as biological weapon,” claims that the U.S. has done so for the purposes of generating profits from an Ebola vaccine as well as to weaken other countries for its own political gain.

“Fears are rising after suspicions were aroused that the virus was made and spread by the U.S.,” the article read, paraphrasing comments and beliefs from a plant pathologist in